Firewind

The revelation the other day from Ozzy Osbourne that his namesake festival, Ozzfest, would be returning this summer after going dark in 2009 as a traveling festival and not a one-off destination date like 2008's installment, has metalheads talking...

When Ozzy Osbourne first revealed to the online world that he'd be titling his forthcoming album 'Soul Sucka,' no one knew what to think. Was this some sort of elaborate hoax, concocted by Ozzy haters? Was Ozzy for real with the Limp Bizkit-esque title...

It doesn't seem like the kind of album title Ozzy Osbourne would choose, necessarily. But according to a report, Ozzy has settled on a name for his next album that's left a lot of longtime metalheads scratching their heads ... and wondering if Oz is collaborated on the disc with Fred Durst...

Now that he's had some time to let it sink in, Black Label Society mastermind Zakk Wylde says the fact that he won't be Ozzy Osbourne's main guitar man anymore is "no big deal." It's been a few months, and Wylde has been recovering from blood clots and the news that he'd been traded in for a younger, sleeker, and faster model: Firewind's Gus G...

Zakk Wylde had no say in the matter of whether or not he'd continue to be Ozzy Osbourne's touring guitarist. That's according to the Black Label Society frontman/guitarist in a recent interview; Wylde has since been replaced by Firewind's Gus G...

A year ago, hardly anyone outside a small enclave of Canadians and '80s loyalists knew who Anvil were. Now, thanks to the excellent and heartfelt Sacha Gervasi rockumentary, 'Anvil! The Story of Anvil,' the band members are recognized in restaurants, on the street, even in cabs -- which is perfectly fine with them...

We doubt any of you watched the MTV Video Music Awards last night (unless you're girlfriend made you watch, in which case, dump that broad), because we sure as hell didn't. Given there isn't even a metal or hard rock video category, why would we...

This morning, when I woke up at 6 AM to start writing this very column, it was still dark. The sun hadn't even started peaking out over the horizon, and all you could hear was the sound of garbage trucks crawling through my neighborhood and collecting everyone's recyclables...

You know what's awesome? Spending the entire Labor Day weekend in bed, sick as a dog, and then waking up Tuesday morning, feeling fine. Just in time for work. Yep, that's right. This writer's Labor Day weekend was the pits. Coughing, wheezing, sneezing, getting loopy on Nyquil ...

Today, the Noisecreep staff will be taping episode numero tres of our newly-launched, weekly ''Creep Show' podcast, and man, is it shaping up to be must-see TV. We're having special guest Trevor Strnad swing by to sit in. Yeah, the dude from Black Dahlia Murder...